Quadco teeth?

redprospector · Jun 5, 2015

Anybody running Quadco teeth on their mulcher? If so, what do you think of them?

t320pilot · Jun 6, 2015

I switched about 2 years ago when the carbides wore out. Love the quadco planer style in the deep woods with no rocks or metal here in FL. They are very well balanced also.

redprospector · Jun 7, 2015

We've got plenty of rocks here, but I was looking at using the planer teeth on select jobs that didn't have much rock, and changing back to carbide when necessary.
How many hours are you getting out of them before they're done?

mulching consultant · Jun 8, 2015

Have you tried Fecon's knife teeth?

t320pilot · Jun 8, 2015

redprospector said:
We've got plenty of rocks here, but I was looking at using the planer teeth on select jobs that didn't have much rock, and changing back to carbide when necessary.
How many hours are you getting out of them before they're done?

About 200 hrs per side. Keeping it out of the dirt is key as you already know.

redprospector · Jun 9, 2015

mulching consultant said:
Have you tried Fecon's knife teeth?

No, I haven't tried any of the knife teeth yet. Just exploring options.
I would like to hear from anyone using Fecon's knife teeth too though.

redprospector · Jun 18, 2015

Well, I guess that I've decided that any kind of a "knife tooth" around here is going to be a futile effort.

I'm going to be cleaning up some more land that was devastated by a forest fire. There are several problems with a job like this. One is that when a catastrophic fire comes through all of the organic soil is burned up, leaving only rock exposed on the ground. It's hard on any cutters that you want to use. The second problem is that the Western White Pine (we call it sugar pine locally) has a lot of heart wood that gets really hard, too hard to grind up with carbide tools. The third problem is specific to this job, and that is the fact that it is a 5 1/2 hour round trip to haul the logs to my property on my gooseneck and pickup (the big trucks aren't interested in hauling it).
I was hoping against hope to be able to use knife teeth to chip up most of these logs, and only have to haul off the largest of them. But after walking through the job again, I think I'd go through a set of teeth a day if I tried it.
Oh well, It was a thought anyway. I guess I'll just keep on keeping on the way I've been going.

tonyoz · Jun 19, 2015

Andy, have you tried the Fecon stone teeth? I run a larger version on my old style Fecon rotor, run them through all kinds of rock and hard timber and can't get to even smoke up. They are hopeless in soft wood, just to aggressive. :2cents:

redprospector · Jun 19, 2015

Thanks Tony,
All I've used is the standard double carbide's. They just seem to be a little slow in this stuff (well, maybe more than a little). I may look into the stone teeth.